Sheaf-carrier



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C..B. WITHINGTON.

SHEA? CARRIER No. 435,584. Patented Sept. 2, 1890.

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C. B. WITHINGTON.

SERA? CARRIER. No. 435,534. Patented Sept. 2, 1890.

' l gnou/bw CbaBM/tbington UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. wITI-IINGToN, or JANEsvILLE, WISCONSIN.

SHEAF-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 435,534, dated September 2, 1890.

Application filed May 23, 1890. Serial No. 352,955. (No model.) v

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. WITHING- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Janesville, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheaf-Oarriers, of which the following is 'a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap, light, and easily-operated carrier which shall receive and discharge the bundles, and in its dumping operation shall be drawn toward the machine, thus narrowing its width for passage through gates and by obstructions.

In the drawings, Figure l is a top view of the elevator parts of a harvester, the framework of an automatic binder attached thereto, and a carrier shown in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, the dot-ted lines showing the position of the carrier when it has been drawn toward the machine in its dumping movement or to pass an obstruction.

A represents the main sills of the harvester; B, the cross-girts; C and D, the cross-girts of the elevator-frame, the rst of which is more properly called the seat-plank, as t-he drivers seat is usually mounted thereou,while the last is called the top board. E and F, bolted together at the top, form the A-frames of the elevator of the harvester. Attached to this frame-work of the harvester upon ways G G-one upon the top and the other supported upon the sill ofthe harvester upon posts or arms-is the frame-work of an automatic binder H, which is adapted to be slid back and forth along the end of the harvester by a rack and pinion or lever-well-known ways of moving binding at-tachments which it has been deemed not necessary to show in the drawings.

Attached to the upper front corner of the U-shaped main frame of the binding attach-l ment H is a pendent pivoted link l, and in the rear a similar link I is pivoted to an arm l2, attached at its upper end to the spring-rail I3 of the binder, and is supported near its lower extremity by the binder-driving shaft J, one end of which shaft is supported by the bracket J', fastened to the A-frame of the harvester, and the other (shown in the drawings as broken off) is extended to the operating parts of the binding attachment. At the lower extremities the arms l l are pivoted to the bundlereceiving platform K.

- In the embodiment of the invention whichl have shown in the drawings the arms I If are united at their lower extremities and form 2L pendent crank, upon which the platform K rests and to which it is fastened bystaples la k. The inner end of the platform K rests upon the sliding guide-bar G and is held from being pushed therefrom by hooks g.

To retain the carrier-platform K in receiving position for the bundles as they leave the binder-deck L, (shown only in Fig. 2,) a long connecting-rod M extends from a crank M', located upon the seat-plank and fitted with diverging arms m m', so that the crank can be thrown through the arc of its movement, whil'e the other end of the connecting-rod M is attached to an arm M2, that isl extended rearwardly from the link I. To strengthen the link l', a curved extension N passes therefrom through a bearing in the supportingarm l2. The driver can now with his feet on the arms m m bring the carrier toward the machine to dump the load and to pass obstacles or throw it out into receiving position.

YVhen the binding attachment H is moved back and forth along the end of the harvester, the carrier, being suspended therefrom moves with it. The platform K is therefore cut away at the front at K', so that when being drawn in it will not strike the A-frame of the harvester. Atits rear there is suflicient space for the adjustment, while the controlling-arm M freely slides on the arm M2. Its bottom is slotted for the passage of any of those parts of the binding mechanism that may be in the way of its inward movement. E

The pivoted links l I are attached to the platform K sufiiciently near the outer end thereof, so that the weight of the load will be somewhat greater upon the part of the platform toward the machine than upon that part beyond the attachment of the links l I. The lower extremities of these links are thus thrown out some distance beyond their pivotal supports, so that when the carrier begins its inward movement the path of the outer extremity of platform K is a curved one downward and'inward,while its inner end, resting IOO upon the way G', is carried inward and upward beneath the deck of the binder, the bundles rolling therefrom upon the ground.

In order that the platform K shallbe thrown in its inward movement more quickly toward a Vertical position, triangular blocks O have been secured to its bottom, and when drawn inward they strike the Way G'.

It is evident that the links I I could be attached to the binding attachment in other ways than described, or to supports extending from the elevator of 'the harvester, and that the inner end of the platform K could be supported by any proper bearing, even though it did not perform the oftice of a way for 'the binding attachment, without departing from the principle of my invention.

Having 'thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In combination with the grain harvesting and binding machine, a sheaf-carrier consisting of a receivingplatform, the outer end of which is hinged upon supporting-links pivoted t0 the machine, a support on the harvester upon which the inner end of the platform rests and slides, and an operating arm or lever whereby the receiving-platform is drawn toward the machine, the outer end be-v ing. dropped downward as it is v drawn inward and the inner end carried upward by its support beneath the deck of the binding attachment.

2. In combination with the grain harvest-l ing and binding machine, a sheaf-carrier con-` sisting of a sheaf -receiving platform supported near its outer end by pivoted links at tached to the machine, its inner end supported upon a guide, and an operating armor lever whereby the receiving-platform may be extended to receive the bundles or drawn back beneath the deck of the binding attachment to discharge them or pass obstructions.

3 In combination with a grain harvesting and binding machine, a shcaf-carrier consisting of supporting pivotal links attached to the binding attachment, a slotted receiving l platform resting thereon and hinged thereto -near the outer end, its inner end resting and sliding on a support upon the machine, triangular blocks attached thereto, and a controlling device to draw the receiving-platform to the machine, whereby when the blocks strike the support for the inner end of the plat form the inner end is thrown upward beneath the binderdcck, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In a sheaf-carrier, the combination of a receivingplatform supported at its outer end upon pivoted links attached to the binder andat its inner upon a fixed guiding-bar, and an operating-rod extending from the seat and loosely mounted upon an arm secured to one ofthe pivoted links, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHAS. B. WITHINGTON. Witnesses:

R. B. SWIFT, J. M. CULVER. 

